Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.